When enormous waves swept through a wedding, sending tables and chairs falling toward guests, the ceremony was cut short.
On Saturday, July 16, when the wedding was taking place in Kailua-Kona, huge waves rushed into Hawaii’s south coasts, destroying homes and businesses and spilling across highways before crashing into the wedding location and sending guests scrambling.
A video shared online shows wedding guests watching the waves approaching but they remained at the scene until the waves crashed the venue and they took to their heels.
Sara Ackerman, an author who grew up in Hawaii and attended the wedding, filmed the waves as they barreled ashore.
She said: “It just was huge,. I was filming it and then it just came over the wall and just completely annihilated all the tables and chairs.”
She said it happened about five minutes before the ceremony was scheduled to begin.
She added: “It wasn’t like a life-threatening situation by any means whatsoever. It was just like, ‘Oh my gosh … what are we going to do? Where are we going to put the tables?'”
She said they went ahead with the ceremony and cleaned up the mess after the newlyweds exchanged vows.
“We had the ceremony and it was beautiful, having all the (sea) spray,” she said. “The ocean was really wild. So it was great for the photos.”
Watch the video below.
